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With MGM debtholders facing a fast-approaching deadline, Carl Icahn’s made another offer to MGM debtholders — his third approach to that group in a week. The Icahn offers are designed to block a proposed pre-packaged bankruptcy deal that would leave Spyglass Entertainment in charge of the Lion. MGM debtholders, who hold about $4 billion in debt, must decide whether to back the Spyglass plan by today. Icahn disclosed Wednesday that he’s been buying MGM senior debt at a price of 50 cents on the dollar and has obtained a “substantial” amount. The billionaire investor said he’s seeking to acquire an aggregate of $500 million in senior loans. MGM had no immediate response.
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IFC Midnight Aquires Slasher Flick
IFC Midnight, the genre division of IFC Films, has snagged North American rights to “Dream Home,” the Hong Kong slasher pic helmed by Pang Ho-Cheung. Real estate-rage thriller, which bowed in the U.S. at the Tribeca Film Festival, centers on a young woman who goes to murderous lengths to be able to afford the house of her dreams. Josie Ho stars. Film is targeted for a theatrical and VOD release early next year.
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Clooney Gets the Money for “Ides Of March”

Exclusive Media Group and Cross Creek Prods. have stepped forward to finance and co-produce George Clooney’s “The Ides of March.” They will join Clooney and Grant Heslov’s Smoke House and Leonardo DiCaprio’s Appian Way, which are producing. Clooney is directing and starring in the film, which is based on Beau Willimon’s politically themed play “Farragut North.” The pic also stars Ryan Gosling, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei and Evan Rachel Wood. Clooney and Heslov have adapted the screenplay with Willimon. Clooney is set to play Governor Morris, a candidate running in the presidential primary race for the Democratic Party ticket, with Gosling cast as his press spokesman. Giamatti plays a rival campaign manager, Tomei appears as a New York Times reporter, and Wood plays an intern for the campaign.
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Eugene Levy Teams Up With “Goon”
Eugene Levy (”American Pie”) is set to star opposite Seann William Scott, Jay Baruchel and Liev Schreiber in Michael Dowse’s indie laffer “Goon.” Baruchel and Evan Goldberg penned the script, which was inspired by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio’s book “Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey Into Minor League Hockey.” Myriad Pictures, which handles foreign sales, will launch the pic at the American Film Market, which gets under way next week in Santa Monica. Alison Pill also stars. Pic revolves around a slacker and born brawler who’s invited to join a minor league hockey team. Persuaded by his best friend to accept the offer, he becomes the hero of the team — until the league’s reigning goon decides to take him down.
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Kiwis Rejoice! “The Hobbit” To Stay In New Zealand

With production due to start in three months, “The Hobbit” is finally home in New Zealand — following a vitriolic dispute underlining the high stakes of mega-budget tentpoles. Wednesday’s settlement came at the end of a bitter one-month firefight with actors unions over a boycott that provoked Warner Bros. and director Peter Jackson to threaten to move “The Hobbit” to Europe or Australia. Making the deal required the intervention of New Zealand prime minister John Key, who announced at a press conference that he’d sweetened the terms enough for Warner Bros. to stay. Among other concessions, the studio was given a larger production subsidy. Key said his government plans to introduce legislation aimed at clarifying a key issue involving the use of independent contractors and employees in the film industry — even though the actors had called off the boycott a week ago and pledged that they wouldn’t disrupt “The Hobbit.” The NZ Actors Equity reiterated that pledge on Wednesday.
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Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill and Frances O’Connor will star in Daniel Nettheim’s new Australian psychological thriller, “The Hunter,” which started production in Tasmania this week. Based on the novel of the same name by Australian author Julia Leigh, “The Hunter” is the story of Martin, a mercenary sent from Europe by an anonymous biotech company to the Tasmanian wilderness on a dramatic hunt for the last Tasmanian tiger. The ensemble cast includes Morgana Davies, Jacek Koman, Dan Wyllie, Sullivan Stapleton, John Brumpton, Callan Mulvey and newcomer Finn Woodlock. “The Hunter” is being produced by Vincent Sheehan through his Porchlight Films shingle with funding from Screen Australia.
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“Who Gets Bob?” The Allen and Wilson Team Do!
CBS Films is in negotiations with the scripting team of Matt Allen and Caleb Wilson (”Four Christmases”) to rewrite romantic comedy “Who Gets Bob?” Project’s set up with producer Walt Becker. Story, originally penned by Rob Ritger, concerns a divorced couple battling over who gets their best friend Bob.
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Posey in the Pocket of New Yoga-Flavored Indie

Indie comedy “Sunny Side Up” has begun production in Boston with a cast that includes Parker Posey and Christy Scott Cashman, who penned the screenplay. David Pomes (”Cook Country”) helms. Cashman also co-produces with Michael Mailer and Galt Niederhoffer, the writer-director-producer who wrote and helmed “The Romantics,” based on her own novel. “Sunny Side,” which will incorporate elements of improv, centers on a yoga guru (Posey) from the city who brings her entourage to a chicken farm in the country and attempts to co-exist with the farmers there.
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Coppola to Make His Return By “Sunrise”

When the director behind “The Godfather,” “The Conversation,” and “Apocalypse Now” has his last two films — 2007’s “Youth Without Youth” and 2009’s “Tetro” — pretty much slip under the radar, what does he do? He slips right back, by quietly casting Val Kilmer as a horror novelist in a new thriller and filming it on his own Napa property. Francis Ford Coppola is already shooting “Twixt Now And Sunrise,” according to reports. Joining Kilmer in the cast is Elle Fanning (fresh off Sofia Coppola’s “Somewhere’) and Bruce Dern, and little is known about the plot beyond it being based on Coppola’s own short story.
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Lynch To Bring “Visability” To Audiences
Jennifer Lynch is set to direct scribe Allan Loeb’s supernatural thriller “Visibility” for Motion Picture Corp. of America. MPCA is eyeing a February start. A supernatural thriller in the vein of “The Sixth Sense” and “Primal Fear,” “Visibility” centers around a detective whose search for the identity of a trauma-induced amnesia victim reveals a mysterious connection between the two men.
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Aronofsky Signs Up to Direct “Machine Man”
Darren Aronofsky continues to fill out his dance in the wake of the buzz he is generating from his “Black Swan” supernatural drama. While he waits for his deal to close to direct “Wolverine 2,” the filmmaker has signed on to develop and direct “Machine Man,” a cybernetic thriller for Mandalay, which sees him reunite with “Swan” co-writer Mark Heyman. Machine is based on a partial manuscript by Max Barry that Mandalay picked up last year. Aronofsky and Mandalay will work with Heyman to adapt the book for the screen, in the hopes of making it his project after he shoots “Wolverine 2.” Cathy Schulman will produce via the Mandalay banner.
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Elijah Wood Arrives at FX in “Wilfred”

Elijah Wood is coming to FX in “Wilfred,” which just received a 13-episode series order. Based on an Aussie comedy, “Wilfred” stars Wood as Ryan, a socially awkward introvert who meets Wilfred (Jason Gann), described as part Australian Shepherd, part Russell Crowe on a bender — except the rest of the world sees Wilfred as a dog, while Ryan sees him as a man dressed in a dog suit. Fiona Gublemann co-stars as Jenna, Ryan’s next door neighbor and Wilfred’s owner. David Zuckerman is the writer-exec producer. Executive Producers are Rich Frank, Paul Frank, Jeff Kwatinetz, Joe Connor and Ken Conner.
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Ang Lee’s “Pi” Casts the Film’s Hero

Fox 2000’s bigscreen adaptation of Yann Martel’s tome “Life of Pi” is at last rowing off to sea, with Ang Lee set to start lensing the fantasy adventure early next year. After a worldwide talent search, Lee has cast 17-year-old newcomer Suraj Sharma in the iconic title role Fox will release the pic Dec. 14, 2012. Gill Netter is producing “Life of Pi,” which will be a large-scale, all-audience film. “Pi” tells the story of a boy who is lost at sea for 227 days in a lifeboat with three unusual and increasingly hungry companions–a bengal tiger named Richard Parker, a hyena, a zebra and an orangutan. He’s left stranded in the tiny boat after the ship carrying his family and his family’s zoo sinks, and must find a way to survive.
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Of Course Tony Scott Will Be Back for “Top Gun 2″
Previous speculation about a potential sequel to 1986’s “Top Gun” has understandably focused on the possibility of Tom Cruise returning as dog-fighting pilot Maverick. But now director Tony Scott has weighed in, and his vision for “Top Gun 2″ sounds like a much more grounded adventure. While promoting his runaway train flick “Unstoppable,” Scott confirmed that he is set to direct the “Top Gun” sequel, though it won’t be his next picture and, in fact, there’s no script yet, much less any further word on Tom Cruise’s involvement. Scott wants to explore the end of the fighter jet pilot era, as aerial warfare transitioned to ground-controlled drone aircraft. Evidently the director is fascinated by the idea of “computer geeks” playing war games, safe in a Nevada trailer, and then partying all night.
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Of Course Tony Scott Will Be Back for “Top Gun 2″
Previous speculation about a potential sequel to 1986’s “Top Gun” has understandably focused on the possibility of Tom Cruise returning as dog-fighting pilot Maverick. But now director Tony Scott has weighed in, and his vision for “Top Gun 2″ sounds like a much more grounded adventure. While promoting his runaway train flick “Unstoppable,” Scott confirmed that he is set to direct the “Top Gun” sequel, though it won’t be his next picture and, in fact, there’s no script yet, much less any further word on Tom Cruise’s involvement. Scott wants to explore the end of the fighter jet pilot era, as aerial warfare transitioned to ground-controlled drone aircraft. Evidently the director is fascinated by the idea of “computer geeks” playing war games, safe in a Nevada trailer, and then partying all night.
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Ingrid Betancourt and Ex-Husband Duel Hollywood Style

The Kennedy/Marshall Co. has acquired rights to Ingrid Betancourt’s recently published book, “Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle.” On Sunday, a spokesperson for producer Kathleen Kennedy confirmed that work is under way on a script based on the book, which is Betancourt’s story about what happened while she was held and her eventual rescue in July 2008. Separately, Los Angeles-based Venezuelan-American writer-director Betty Kaplan has acquired rights to two books written during Betancourt’s captivity by Juan Carlos Lecompte, who was her husband. His Spanish-language books — “In Search of Ingrid” and “Ingrid y Yo: A Sweet and Sour Freedom,” tell the story of his love and the search for Betancourt throughout her captivity.
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Screens Will Be Attacked By “The Doberman Gang”

“The Doberman Gang” may be coming back, thanks to “Dog Whisperer” Cesar Millan. The canine trainer’s teaming with producer Darren Reagan, who’s secured remake rights to the three-film series about an animal trainer who uses a pack of Dobermans to pull off the perfect crime. “The Doberman Gang” opened in 1972 with the six dogs named after bank robbers — Dillinger, Bonnie, Clyde, Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson and Ma Barker. “The Daring Dobermans” was released in 1973, followed by 1976’s “The Amazing Dobermans” with Fred Astaire, Barbara Eden and Billy Barty. Millan will serve as a producer on the project, but it hasn’t been decided if he’ll appear in the film.
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Are You Ready for “ACME: The Movie”?
Kevin and Dan Hageman have sold an original pitch to Warner Bros. that could very well explode in their faces. The Hagemans came up with the idea to build a feature film around the fictional ACME warehouse — the manufacturer of anything and everything used by many of the “Looney Tunes” characters, most fatefully Wile E. Coyote in his quest to catch the Roadrunner. The writers developed the concept with producers Dan Lin and Roy Lee and hope to build a franchise out of the Warner property (the company owns Looney Tunes).
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Caution! Uwe Boll Has a New Movie

Uwe Boll is back at it. “Blubberella” is writer/director/doctor Boll’s new and unfortunately titled action film, which presumably chronicles the violent adventures of its full-figured namesake. The titular heroine will be played by Lindsay Hollister, an actress who has worked with Boll before (she survived “Postal”), and even Boll understands the value of someone who’s willing to work with him more than once. Hollister — to her credit — is a successful actress in her own right, and has appeared in such films as “Get Smart” and “A Cinderella Story,” as well as a number of prominent TV shows.
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Hilary Duff Signs Up for a Little Indie Action
Hilary Duff has joined the cast of indie pic “She Wants Me,” which has just commenced lensing in Los Angeles and Gotham. Pic, which is the second directorial effort from helmer-scribe Rob Margolies, follows the tale of a neurotic writer Sam, played by Josh Gad, who is making his next feature film and becomes conflicted after Duff’s A-list starlet character shows interest in playing the lead role, which he has already promised to girlfriend and struggling actress, Sammy, played by Kristen Ruhlin. Pic is produced by Stonebrook Entertainment’s Danny Roth. Mark and Christine Holder from Zero Gravity Management will also produce.
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Longtime “Family Guy” talent Alex Borstein is stepping into the spotlight at 20th Century Fox. The writer and voice of Lois on Fox’s animated hit has made a sweeping overall deal with the studio to develop, write and executive produce two pilot scripts in which she might appear. One is an animated project, the other a live-action comedy. The studio has made a talent holding deal that would allow for other writers to develop projects for Borstein and for the studio to cast her into an existing project.
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“Sex and the City” alum Kristin Davis is attached to star in and produce a laffer for NBC and Universal Media Studios about a woman’s year-long quest to become happier in her life. “Chuck” scribe Kristin Newman is in talks with the studio to write and exec produce the pilot. The single-camera project is based on the real-life experience of Gretchen Rubin, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, who embarked on a quest to explore the nature of happiness while writing a book, “The Happiness Project,” that was published by HarperCollins in January. Rubin also launched a related blog, happiness-project.com, that piqued Davis’ interest. Davis will serve as a co-exec producer on the project.
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Actress Josie Ho has joined Arclight Films’ action thriller “The Courier,” which began shooting in Louisiana last week with stars Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mickey Rourke. Written by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas (”3:10 To Yuma,” “Wanted”), Film is being directed by Hany Abu-Assad, director of the Oscar-nominated and Golden Globe-winning “Paradise Now.” Hong Konger Ho plays Anna, a woman with a mysterious past who meets the daredevil international delivery man of the film’s title (Morgan) during what may be his last drop, to someone who may, or may not, exist.
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Lea Michele is eyeing “New Year’s Eve” and is in talks to make her feature film debut in New Line’s ensemble comedy. The “Glee” star would be joining a large cast in a spin-off from the New Line comedy “Valentine’s Day” with Garry Marshall expected to return as director. “Valentine’s Day” producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice are returning as well as screenwriter Katherine Fugate. The story would be set in New York City on New Year’s Eve. New Line has set Dec. 9, 2011 as the release date.
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Lea Michele is eyeing “New Year’s Eve” and is in talks to make her feature film debut in New Line’s ensemble comedy. The “Glee” star would be joining a large cast in a spin-off from the New Line comedy “Valentine’s Day” with Garry Marshall expected to return as director. “Valentine’s Day” producers Mike Karz and Wayne Rice are returning as well as screenwriter Katherine Fugate. The story would be set in New York City on New Year’s Eve. New Line has set Dec. 9, 2011 as the release date.
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After months of speculation and a seemingly endless list of names, the James Cameron-produced remake of the 1966 minor sci-fi classic “Fantastic Voyage” has landed a director: Louis Leterrier, the man behind the lens of “The Incredible Hulk” and this year’s “Clash of the Titans.” Details may change, but the basic plot of the remake should be the same as Richard Fleischer’s original film, following a team of scientists as they’re miniaturized and injected into a human body to perform a life-saving procedure. Naturally, things go horribly wrong and adventure happens. Although Shane Salerno’s script is currently undergoing “minor revisions” courtesy of “Avatar” producer and “Shutter Island” writer Laeta Kalogridis, Cameron is hoping to get the film rolling by early next year, which is an unusually short amount of time for a production with the name James Cameron scrawled on it. If this is the case, a director needs to be signed quickly. After all, that little thing called “pre-production” needs to happen.
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It’s Official: After “War Horse,” It’s “Robopocalypse” for Spielberg
Steven Spielberg will direct futuristic drama “Robocalypse” for DreamWorks and begin shooting in January 2012. Disney will distribute the films through its Touchstone label in 2013. Spielberg has been directing World War I epic “War Horse.” Disney and DreamWorks will release the film Aug. 10, 2011. “Robocalypse,” based on the novel of the same name by Daniel H. Wilson, explores the fate of the human race following a robot uprising. Drew Goddard has penned the adaptation. DreamWorks acquired feature rights to Wilson’s unpublished manuscript in November. Doubleday has publishing rights and will release the book in June.
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So, Keeping It Straight, It’s Mel Out, Liam In on “Hangover 2″
Liam Neeson will replace Mel Gibson as the tattoo artist in “The Hangover 2.” Gibson was cast then let go from the part, described as “pivotal” to the movie by those who have read the script. While the original movie revolved around a Las Vegas bachelor party that devolves into a drunken lost weekend, the follow-up tracks the same stars — Bradley Cooper, Zack Galifianakis, Ed Helms and Justin Bartha — on a misbegotten trip to Bangkok, Thailand. The tattoo artist is one of the characters the guys need to track down during their adventures. The character is described as “crazy” and “intense,” “someone you’re afraid to talk to.” It is unclear if the part will be altered to incorporate the sensibilities of Neeson. It was Cooper, who starred with Neeson in this summer’s “The A-Team” that was instrumental in getting Neeson the part.
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“SATC” Director Nabs Holy Trinity of Actresses for New Flick

Talk about female star power: Meryl Streep, Sandra Bullock and Oprah Winfrey are attached to star in “Sex and the City” creator Michael Patrick King’s untitled comedy project, just set up at Universal Pictures. King will write and direct the comedy, described by the studio as being “set in and around the world of a Home Shopping-type network and follows the characters as they make their way through the maze of mania that surrounds marketing, marriages and the media.” Scott Stuber will produce through his Universal-based Stuber Pictures.
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inger’s “Beanstalk” Re-Imagining Gets the Green Light
New Line Cinema has just given the thumbs up to director Bryan Singer’s “dark version of the classic fairy tale of Jack and the Beanstalk.” How dark? Well, it’s currently titled “Jack the Giant Killer.” So much for subtlety. Nothing else is confirmed, but rumors say it will be shot in 3-D (well, yeah) and that Aaron Johnson (”Nowhere Boy,” “Kick Ass”) is a favorite for the lead.
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Get Ready for a “Bones” Spinoff
Though “Bones” creator Hart Hanson said last week that he’s in the middle of developing a spinoff from his hit show, there’s one catch — we haven’t met the spinoff character just yet. Hanson is definitely behind the potential new series, which, like its predecessor, would be based on a book series. The spinoff would follow Walter Sherman, an eccentric man who can locate anything and the main character in Richard Greener’s “The Locator” series. The yet-to-be-cast Sherman would know Booth from Iraq, and while he’d clash with the FBI agent, he’d intrigue Dr. Brennan.
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Apple Production Shingle Sets Up Mini-Fund for Indies
Gotham-based production and distribution company Cactus Three has formed a fund to provide finishing costs for documentaries and indie films. Coin is expected to be steered toward five to seven projects, generally in post-production, per year. Each pic will receive up to $100,000. Fund is a collaboration between C3 co-founders Caroline Stevens and Krysanne Katsoolis and Liquid Prods.’ John Margetis. Fund will target smaller films in need of completion-cost capitalization ahead of submissions to the fest circuit. Projects will selected from a pool of applicants, with films supported by the C3 coin potentially screening as early as the 2011 edition of Sundance.
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Indomina Finds Itself Some “Bodyguards” with Hong Kong Fu Pickup
Indomina Releasing has acquired domestic rights to Hong Kong martial arts thriller “Bodyguards and Assassins” from We Distribution. “Bodyguards,” which has grossed more than $50 million in Asian markets, stars Donnie Yen and Leon Lai. Directed by Teddy Chen, pic was written by Tin Nam Chun, Junli Guo, Bing Wu and James Yuen and produced by Peter Ho-Sun Chan and Jianxin Huang. Set in Hong Kong in 1906, “Bodyguards” centers on a motley crew of five men and women who must work together to protect the man destined to lead them to a new, modern China from a group of deadly assassins.
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Galecki’s the Latest to Join New Niccol Flick

Johnny Galecki has booked his first major feature role since becoming a star on CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory.” Galecki is joining the cast of New Regency’s “I’m.Mortal,” the speculative sci-fi project from writer-director Andrew Niccol. Strike Entertainment is producing. The movie is set in the not-too-distant future where the aging gene has been switched off. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Olivia Wilde are among the cast. In a role far removed from the one he plays in his hit CBS show, Galecki will portray Timberlake’s best friend, a screw-up of a father with a drinking problem who wastes all of his family’s excess time.
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“HSM” Starlet Set to Take Herself a Little “Journey”

Vanessa Hudgens is in final negotiations to play the female lead in New Line’s “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island,” the sequel to “Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D.” Brad Peyton is on board to direct the film, in which Josh Hutcherson is reprising his role as burgeoning explorer Sean Anderson. Dwayne Johnson is also starring in the pic being produced by Beau Flynn and Tripp Vinson of Contrafilm. The story sees Hutcherson and Johnson forced to go a trip to a mythical and monstrous island to find his missing grandfather. The script is loosely based on Jules Verne’s “The Mysterious Island.” Hudgens plays a Pacific Islander who gets swept into the adventure and end up falling for Hutcherson.
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David Chase and Steven Van Zandt, Together Again
David Chase has gotten the band together, and it’s turned into a reunion tour. The writer-director has been on a nationwide search for young, relative unknowns to star in his untitled rock ‘n’ roll coming-of-age film, and he’s found them in John Magaro, Jack Huston and Will Brill. But he’s also brought aboard his old “Sopranos” actor, guitarist Steven Van Zandt, to supervise the music for the film and executive produce. The music-driven project, which will be Chase’s feature directing debut, follows a group of suburban New Jersey guys making their way during the 1960s as a rock band called the Twilight Zones. Paramount Vantage will release the film, which Chase is producing with Mark Johnson (”Rain Man”).
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Earth-Shattering News! Peter Jackson to Direct “Hobbit” Movies!
After weeks of chatter, discussion, rumor and hearsay about whether or not Peter Jackson would helm the two upcoming “Hobbit” movies, it appears all of the papers have finally come together. New Line Cinema and MGM have agreed upon precisely how much financing each studio is going to stand behind, and Peter Jackson’s contract has been been sorted as well. Now, if the studios, Jackson and the New Zealand unions can only come to an agreement, filming will start Down Under in February. If not, odds are another location will be found. Stay tuned.
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Those Muppets Are Getting Some Nice Company

Disney has started wrangling some humans to join its cast of Muppets. Amy Adams, Chris Cooper and Rashida Jones are in talks to join Jason Segel in the untitled comedy that the Mouse House is readying to start lensing in November under the helm of “The Flight of the Conchords’” James Bobin. Adams would play the girlfriend to Segel’s character, while Cooper would be the pic’s primary villain, an evil oil tycoon set on destroying the Muppet Theater to drill for the oil he believes it’s sitting on. Jones is said to portray an ABC executive. Mandeville’s David Hoberman and Todd Lieberman are producing. Segal and Nick Stoller penned the script.
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Pair of Acting Heavyweights Set to Take a “Vow”

Jessica Lange and Sam Neill are taking “The Vow,” joining the cast of Screen Gems/Spyglass Entertainment romancer opposite Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum. Screen Gems and Spyglass are co-financing and distributing “The Vow,” directed by Michael Sucsy (”Grey Gardens”), in the first collaboration between the companies.
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With the Chilean miners rescued, at least two TV networks, Discovery Channel and PBS, are planning documentaries about the dramatic rescue mission at the end of the month. Discovery Communications has started putting together a special about the Chilean mine drama, which is scheduled on the Discovery Channel on Oct. 28. Called “Rescued: The Chilean Mine Story,” it is scheduled to feature interviews with the miners and their families, as well as the engineers working on the rescue. The company’s Latin America operation took the lead on the production. PBS said Wednesday that its science flagship series “Nova” has had a film crew on the ground at the scene of the mine disaster since Sept. 5 and will air an hour-long documentary on the events, called “Emergency Mine Rescue,” on Oct. 26.
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ngelina Jolie’s Directorial Debut Runs Into Trouble
Angelina Jolie’s debut movie as a director-scribe — a cross-cultural romance that is filming in Hungary — has run into the barrier of Balkans politics. Jolie planned to wrap shooting on the yet-to-be named love story between a Serbian man and Bosnian woman, set during the bloody civil war in the former-Yugoslavia in the early Nineties, in Bosnia next month. But Bosnia’s culture minister Gavrilo Grahovac has canceled the shooting permit because, he says, no script was attached to the request to film. Bosnia’s capital Sarajevo endured a murderous three-year siege by Serb forces during the civil war and the film appears to have fallen foul of ethnic wounds unhealed 15 years after the war’s end. Scout Film’s Edin Sarkic said a copy of the script had been given to the culture ministry. He hoped approval for filming would follow shortly.
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The Gotham Group Goes for Some “Candy”
The Gotham Group nabbed the bigscreen rights to Brandon Mull’s young-adult novel “The Candy Shop War.” Zachary Gordon, who starred in the novel-turned-film “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” is attached to star. Gotham’s Ellen Goldsmith-Vein and Lindsay Williams are producing. Story centers on a new kid in town, who enters a world where special candy can make kids float, shoot electric shocks from their fingers and even enter the land of wonder through the looking glass.
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Verhoeven Climbing Back Into the Director’s Chair

Paul Verhoeven is feeling “Eternal,” signing to direct the supernatural thriller for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment. Film will be produced by Kimmel, John Penotti of Greene Street, Peter Block of A Bigger Boat and Charles Segars of Sparkler Entertainment. The script, penned by “Obsessed” writer David Loughery, centers on a recovering alcholic who believes that he’s cheated on his wife — only to discover that the other woman is a ghost who is in pursuit of his soul. Richard D’Ovidio will re-write.
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Warner’s and Mandeville Find a Writer for Sci-Fi Idea

Warner Bros. has tapped Bill Birch to pen Mandeville Films’ action-comedy “Collared.” Story’s centered on a mysterious group of prisoners held captive in Southern Nevada in the secretive military base Area 51. Mandeville partner David Hoberman originated the idea. He and partner Todd Lieberman will produce.
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DreamWorks Studios has firmed up its 2011 schedule after a week-long summit with Disney brass, including moving Steven Spielberg’s “War Horse” from August 10 to Dec. 28. That gives Spielberg two family pics to unwrap at Christmas. Paramount and Sony’s 3D tentpole “Adventures of Tintin: Secret of Unicorn,” directed by Spielberg, opens Dec. 23, 2011. DreamWorks doesn’t have a stake in “Tin-Tin.” DreamWorks co-chair/CEO Stacey Snider said there are enough eyeballs during the year-end holiday season to support both films. “War Horse” is based on stage play, which was drawn from the classic young adult tome. “War Horse” shift was one of several changes to DreamWorks’ 2011 release calendar. In a second shift, Shawn Levy’s “Real Steel” will move up from Nov. 18 to Oct. 7 in order to give the Hugh Jackman event pic room to grow and play into the holiday frame. And DreamWorks will now release femme-driven pic “The Help”, based on the best-selling book, on Aug. 12. Finally, DreamWorks and Disney has dated “Fright Night 3D” for Aug. 19.
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Social networking, mobile, voice and video services are all coming together a determined rate of speed — heck, even Apple is being forced to allow Google's disruptive voice apps back on the iPhone for fear of being ostracized. This trend could lead to one of the most powerful partnerships since Harry Reese tied up with Milton Hershey. Facebook is close to announcing a wide-ranging agreement with this IP-based communications platform that will include integration of SMS, voice chat and the all powerful Facebook Connect system, reports Kara Swisher in the WSJ's BoomTown blog. Folks who log in with their Skype account using Facebook will be able to chat with their Facebook friends and visa versa. Facebook has been experimenting with more advanced communications tools such as live streaming and video chat but a Skype integration would bring best of class services to a social network that is quickly defining how the people of the world connect with one another. Also, both services can only gain followers in such a scenario, as both have over 550 million registered users who can't all overlap. Rumors of branded Facebook phone continued to be bandied about but this deal, if it turns out to be real, is much bigger.

Britain’s Film4 Gets A Boost In The Budget
Brit pubcaster Channel 4 is upping the budget of its film financing division, Film4, to £15 million ($23.8 million) per year for the next five years. New budget, effective from 2011 onwards, reps a 50% increase on Film4’s current spend on feature development and financing, and marks the second cash hike to the budget this year. In May, pubcaster put a $3.2 million cash injection into its budget, returning it to its 2008 level of $15.9 million before the global economic downturn. News will be welcome to the Brit pic biz, which is still waiting to hear how lottery money from the U.K. Film Council, which was shuttered on July 26 and is now effectively in wind-down mode, will be distributed in the future. Film4 is one of the three major funding bodies in the U.K. that invest in local fare: the U.K. Film Council, which comes to halt in April 2012, invests an annual $22.8 million of lottery money into production of Brit pics, while BBC Films invests around $18 million a year.
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Soderbergh Snags Lathan to Join His “Contagion” Cast
Sanaa Lathan has joined the ensemble cast of Steven Soderbergh’s drama “Contagion” for Warner Bros. Pictures. “Contagion” centers on a deadly virus that threatens the human population, with groups from around the world working together to contain the epidemic. Lathan will play the spouse of Laurence Fishburne’s character, the doctor who informs his wife of the epidemic, who inadvertently tells a friend and sparks pandemonium. “Contagion” is written by Scott Burns and produced by Soderbergh, Stacey Sher, Greg Jacobs and Michael Shamberg. Cast includes Matt Damon, Jude Law, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow.
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After 30 Years, They’re Finally Finding “Gold”
Quinta Communications topper has Tarak Ben Ammar unveiled major studio distribution deals for its $55 million indie Arab pic “Black Gold” (formerly titled “Black Thirst”), saying that Warner Bros. and Universal have come on board the pic as worldwide partners and distribs on a territory-by-territory basis. Ben Ammar also confirmed Antonio Banderas and “A Prophet” star Tahar Rahim will join the international cast that includes Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, Riz Ahmed and Liya Kebede. “The Name of the Rose” helmer Jean-Jacques Annaud will direct the pic, based on the screenplay by Menno Meyjes (”The Color Purple,” “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”), which follows the rivalry of two young Emirs set against the backdrop of 1930s Arab states at the peak of the oil boom. It is based on the Hans Ruesch’s tome “The Great Thirst,” and Annaud and Alain Godard have co-written the story. Pic, which Ben Ammar had been trying to make for 30 years since he first optioned the tome in 1978, begins lensing on Oct. 18 at Ben Ammar’s Empire Studios in Tunisia.
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Looks Like Carnahan’s “Umbra” Is Up in New Thriller
Joe Carnahan has been tapped to write and direct the thriller “Umbra” for Endgame Entertainment. Hal Lieberman and Endgame’s James D. Stern and Doug Hanson are producing. “Umbra,” based on Steven Karczynski’s screenplay, centers on a businessman finding a mysterious package in his mailbox and being thrust into the middle of a secret government agency conspiracy. Running for his life while piecing together the clues, the man learns some startling truths about himself and his unwitting connection to the agency that’s hunting him. Endgame views “Umbra” as a franchise starter.
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Franco Keeps It Up: Options Another Book
Thesp James Franco has optioned D.J. Waldie’s memoir “Holy Land” for a potential feature. According to Waldie, Franco read the book in a class at UCLA and “it stuck in his memory. Waldie says he sees the book as a potential docu. Two weeks ago, Franco optioned another book, “The Adderall Diaries,” for him to write, direct and perhaps star in.
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Spain’s Oscar Entry Finds an American Home
Vitagraph Films has acquired North American rights to Spain’s foreign-lingo Oscar entry “Even the Rain,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal. Distrib principals David Shultz and Margot Gerber plan a February release for the pic. It will go out in the top 15 markets. Directed by Iciar Bollain from a screenplay by Paul Laverty, “Rain” also features Luis Tosar and Carlos Aduviri. The film-within-a-film in “Even the Rain” chronicles some of Christopher Columbus’ exploits with the indigenous people he encountered in the Americas.
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“300″ Writer Sets Up Spooky New Show at the Peacock

“300″ writer Michael Gordon has sold a spooky surveillance project to NBC. The network has picked up “ECHELON” from Gordon and Imagine Entertainment and 20th Century Fox TV. The idea was spawned by the controversial U.S electronic eavesdropping apparatus ECHELON, a program that supposedly captures virtually all data signals for analysis at a central hub in West Virginia. Now here’s the twist from the show’s logline: “There is, however, less than one percent of the data that nobody wants to touch. These are the classified video files that seem to have captured the unexplainable.” The show will center on a fictional team called G.H.O.S.T. (Global Hierarchical Observation Strategy Taskforce) whose assignment it is to investigate this paranormal data. Brian Grazer and Francie Calfo will executive producers on the project, with Gordon also executive producing.
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“Two and a Half Men’s” Angus T. Jones, 16, who plays Charlie Sheen’s nephew, has inked a $300,000-per-episode contract. This makes Jones — who will earn, at a minimum, $7.8 million over the next two seasons plus a $500,000 signing bonus — the highest-paid child TV star. He may even bank more this year. CBS has guaranteed 48 episodes over the next two seasons,meaning Angus could make $14.4 million, plus a $500,000 signing bonus.
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“Dolphin’s Tale” Gets a Father Figure in Kristofferson

Kris Kristofferson is joining the cast of Alcon Entertainment’s “Dolphin Tale.” 3-D production is produced by Alcon toppers Andrew Kosove and Broderick Johnson with Alcon marketing prexy Richard Ingber, who brought the project to the company. Charles Martin Smith (”Air Bud”) is directing from the the script by Karen Janszen (”A Walk to Remember”) with revisions by Smith and Jordan Roberts. Script is based on an original treatment by Noam Dromi. “Dolphin” is based on true events about Winter, a dolphin who loses her tail in a crab trap and an 11-year old boy who befriends her at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium and rallies friends and family to save Winter by convincing a doctor to create a prosthetic attachment to restore the dolphin’s ability to swim. Winter the dolphin will play herself in the movie. Kristofferson will play the father of Harry Connick Jr.’s character, a single father running an understaffed aquarium.
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Michelle Williams Getting More Company in “Marilyn” Flick
Julia Ormond and Dougray Scott have joined the cast of the Marilyn Monroe biopic “My Week With Marilyn.” Ormond will play Vivien Leigh, snapping up the role after Catherine Zeta-Jones dropped out of the pic, while Scott takes on the role of playwright Arthur Miller. Thesps join Michelle Williams, who will star as Monroe, alongside Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Dominic Cooper, Emma Watson and Eddie Redmayne. Pic, helmed by Simon Curtis, is produced by “Shakespeare in Love” producer David Parfitt through the London-based shingle Trademark Films. Adrian Hodges penned the screenplay, based on the diaries of Colin Clark, the assistant who worked with Monroe on the set of “The Prince and the Showgirl.” Story chronicles a week in the life of Monroe in which she escapes the shackles of Hollywood life and embraces life in Blighty with Clark.
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Slattery the Latest to Enlist for Indie Drama “Return”
John Slattery (”Mad Men”) has joined the cast of Liza Johnson’s indie drama “Return” alongside Linda Cardellini and Michael Shannon. Noah Harlan of 2.1 Films and Ben Howe are producing “Return.” Slattery will play a war vet who befriends Cardellini’s character, a mother and wife who has just returned home from a tour of duty. Also joining the project is Shannon’s “Boardwalk Empire” co-star Paul Sparks. Talia Balsam of “Mad Men” has also joined the cast.
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HBO and Al Pacino, Together Again!
HBO is once again teaming with Al Pacino, this time on a Phil Spector biopic. The actor who just won an Emmy for his role as Jack Kevorkian in the pay cabler’s telepic “You Don’t Know Jack” is set to play the iconic record producer who was sent to jail last year for a minimum of 19 years for the murder of Lana Clarkson. Still in the development stage and without a title, HBO Films pic is set to be written and directed by David Mamet. Barry Levinson, who directed “Jack,” will exec produce. Spector, credited for the “Wall of Sound” of the 1960s, produced more than 15 top-10 hits in the decade. Known for a fiery temper throughout his career, Spector reportedly became more eccentric in later years and went through three attorneys in his first murder trial, which ended in a mistrial.
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Projects Announced
Brit Thespian Freeman Signs Up for Catalan Drama
Brit thesp Martin Freeman (”Sherlock”) will co-star in “Animals,” the feature debut of Catalan director Marcal Fores. Freeman, who is the subject of intense speculation over whether he will or will not play Bilbo Baggins in “The Hobbit” pics, plays a secondary school teacher in “Animals,” a fantasy-laced coming-of-age tale that Escandalo Films producer Sergi Casamitjana dubs as “‘Donnie Darko’ meets Gus Van Sant.” Further key cast on the English-language pic includes young Brit actors Augustus Prew (”The Borgias,” “About a Boy”), and Dimitri Leonidas (”Tormented”).
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“M.A.S.H.” Vet Alan Soon to Be Working Alda Time!
Alan Alda is heading to the big screen, booking two back-to-back projects at Universal. Alda will first board Universal’s Judd Apatow comedy “Wanderlust,” then becomes the first to join Ben Stiller in “Tower Heist,” which Brett Ratner is directing. In “Wanderlust,” which follows a married couple played by Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd trying to escape modern society by moving out of New York, Alda will play the head of a naturist village. “Heist” sees an overworked manager (Stiller) of an illustrious tower residence who leads a team of defrauded workers in a heist of its penthouse tenant, a Bernie Madoff-type Wall Street capitalist who pulled a Ponzi scheme and swindled the staff. Alda will play the capitalist.
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With the Gulf coast still feeling the effects of Hurricane Katrina, it’s easy to forget there was ever a storm as deadly. But, back in 1900, a hurricane made landfall in Galveston, Texas and didn’t subside until it claimed about 8,000 lives. Not only was the loss of life devastating, but the storm destroyed what was once known as the “Wall Street of the Southwest.” This Category 4 storm will be the subject of Warner Bros’ upcoming disaster film. According to reports, the studio snatched up Daniel Sussman’s script, “Galveston,” which tells the stories of several individuals with the hurricane in the backdrop. There’s a young couple facing separation, a power struggle involving various bureaucracies and a love triangle in which two of the parties are brothers. The idea came from Polly Johnsen and she’s on board to produce the film through her company, Polymorphic Pictures.
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Quartet of Young Actors to Rock Out “Together”

Lou Taylor Pucci, Stella Maeve, James Duval and Nora Kirkpatrick are starring in “All Together Now,” an indie rock drama being directed by Alexander Tavitian. “Together” follows a group of twentysomethings during the course of a night as they attend a noise-rock concert in the middle of the woods. The movie is shooting on 16mm, and the film’s style will be reminiscent of Penelope Spheeris’ punk rock docs of the 1980s. Movie was put together by Tavitian, producers Michael Younesi and Leah Fong and screenwriter Ryan Kasmiskie, all fresh-faced filmmakers out of USC.
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Pixar Vet Headed to Sony for Animated Flick
Doug Sweetland has signed on to helm “The Familiars” for Sony Pictures Animation. Sam Raimi and Josh Donen will exec produce the pic, based on scribes Adam J. Epstein and Andrew Jacobson’s novel of the same name. “The Familiars,” published by HarperCollins, is a magical adventure about wizards in training and their animal companions. Sweetland joins Sony after 16 years at Pixar where he worked on animated features including “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.” and “Finding Nemo.”
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Winterbottom’s Coogan Comedy Ends Up at IFC
IFC Films is acquiring the U.S. rights to Michael Winterbottom’s British comedy “The Trip,” starring Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Film premiered at Toronto, and was produced by Andrew Eaton and Melissa Parmenter of Revolution Films. Flick follows Coogan, who is asked by The Observer newspaper to travel through the Lake District and Yorkshire Dales, dining in fine restaurants and visiting various historic locations from the life of William Wordsworth. But when his girlfriend backs out on him, he has no one to accompany him on the trip. Enter Brydon, his best friend and source of eternal aggravation.
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Spidey Reboot Seems to Have Found Its Mary Jane Watson

No longer just on the verge, actress Emma Stone is quite a big deal now that she is going to be offered the role of Mary Jane Watson in the new “Spider Man” movie, a role previously played by Kirsten Dunst in Sam Raimi’s “Spider-Man” trilogy. The character might not be as prominent in the first part of the reboot series, though. Directed by Marc Webb, it’s likely to be more faithful to Spidey’s comic origins, which have the web-slinging hero (Andrew Garfield) first dating Gwen Stacy (still not yet officially cast) and later hooking up with the redhead. It’s possible that Stone would only make a minor appearance in this next film, then, only to set up the rest of the franchise.
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Harding Biopic Gets Itself a Screenwriter
Screenwriter Barbara Turner has been tapped to pen “Unscrupulous,” the developing indie feature about the Harding administration. Turner is a co-writer of HBO Films’ “Hemingway and Gellhorn,” set to star Clive Owen and Nicole Kidman. Other pics on her resume include “Pollock,” Robert Altman’s “The Company” and “Georgia.” Produced by William Rabbe, political thriller “Unscrupulous” is based on Charles L. Mee’s 1980 book “The Ohio Gang,” which depicts the 1920s administration of President Harding as a scandal-plagued collection of eccentric characters.
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Thomas Haden Church will co-star alongside Matthew McConaughey and Emile Hirsch in William Friedkin’s black comedy “Killer Joe.” Nicolas Chartier’s Voltage Pictures is producing the indie pic, which playwright Tracy Letts is penning, based on his play about a detective who doubles as a hired killer.
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Screen Gems is developing bestselling book series “The Mortal Instruments” into a possible film franchise, starting with the series’ first installment “City of Bones.” Screen Gems will team with Constantin Film and Unique Features on the project. The “Mortal” series is by author Cassandra Clare. “City of Bones” tells the story of a seemingly ordinary teenager who discovers she is the descendent of a demon-hunting clan called Shadowhunters. Pic is penned by Jessica Postigo, with Constantin’s film and TV head Martin Moszkowicz exec producing and Robert Kulzer producing. Michael Lynne and Robert Shaye will also produce, along with Dylan Sellers.
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Kelly Rowan (”The O.C.”) is to star in a series of TV mystery movies from indie co-producers Breakthrough Entertainment, Salient Point Prods. and Colossal Entertainment. The “Rebecca Kane” wheel of mystery telefilms, created and written by Los Angeles-based Donald Martin, will feature Rowan as a secretary/sleuth to the chief of police in a sleepy fishing town. Colossal Entertainment’s Graham Ludlow is producing the TV mystery movies, now in development.
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Summit Taking a Trip With “Tempest” Adaptation
Summit Entertainment is going time traveling via “Tempest,” based on Julie Cross’ upcoming novel. Sonny Mallhi will produce the project with Brendan Deneen exec producing via the Macmillan Films banner, along with Roy Lee. Thomas Dunne Books, a division of St. Martin’s Press, will be publishing the book. Cross’s novel is the first in a trilogy about a 19-year-old time traveler who witnesses his girlfriend’s murder and inadvertently jumps back two years. While stuck there, he’s recruited by a shadowy government agency run by the man he thought was his father and vows to save his girlfriend. It’s the first published novel for Cross, an Illinois resident.
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Winterbottom Set for Dueling Knox Biopic
Michael Winterbottom is developing a feature film about the Amanda Knox murder case with Colin Firth in talks to play a journo or writer investigating the trial’s elements. Winterbottom, the prolific British helmer most recently of serial killer thriller “The Killer Inside Me,” mingled with the international press pack Friday outside a closed hearing in Perugia, Italy, where Knox appeared in court for a slander case related to her 26-year murder sentence. A rep for Winterbottom confirmed that a project based on the Knox case is in “early days.” It will be the the second Knox project: Cabler Lifetime has a telepic starring Hayden Panettiere as Amanda Knox in production titled “The Amanda Knox Story,” with plans to air Stateside next year.
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It's always nice to see an older world gentleman get dragged into the digital age, even if it is kicking and screaming. Storied director, actor, writer and film historian Peter Bogdanovich has chosen the respected independent film site indieWIRE to begin sharing his ruminations about Hollywood's Golden Age. Peter is not doing it for the exposure, rather to help educate folks on what came before the current 3D explosion-laden entertainments at the box office. "The state of movie culture, indeed, the state of culture in the U.S.A., is at a distressingly low level," he explains in his welcome post. "At film schools all over the country, most of the students act as though picture history begins somewhere around Raging Bull." He promises to write about at least a movie a week, beginning with "Stage Door," "Casablanca" and "The Heartbreak Kid" (the latter starring his ex-girlfriend Cybil Shepherd.) indieWIRE parent company SnagFilms also announced an agreement with Starbucks a couple weeks ago to co-curate a monthly selection of feature documentary films to be offered for free on the soon-to launch-Digital Network. Now you'll have something substantive to watch when sipping lattes in any Starbucks location.
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J.Lo Is Slowly Taking Over the TV Landscape
The networks continue to make room for J.Lo, who’s behind a new dramatic comedy set up at ABC. Jennifer Lopez, who officially landed the plum job as judge on “American Idol” last week, and producing partner Simon Fields have teamed with “Friends” alum Alexa Junge to develop the hourlong. Alphabet has given a script plus penalty order to the project. Untitled show (known in some circles as “Nannyland”) centers on three branches of an extended Los Angeles family — as told through the eyes of their three Latina nannies. Junge will serve as creator and showrunner and will exec produce with Lopez and her Nuyorican Prods. partner Simon Fields. Ann Blanchard is also an exec producer. Sony Pictures TV is behind the show.
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“Hobbit” Films Inch a Bit Closer to Reality

“The Hobbit,” which has been stuck in limbo this year, has moved closer to a greenlight from co-financers New Line and MGM. Though neither studio had any comment, sources close to the situation indicated that an official go-ahead on the back-to-back films may be coming within a few days. But those sources also emphasized that a greenlight is still not a certainty. There are still several hurdles, including MGM’s bankruptcy and the ongoing dispute with local actors unions. Peter Jackson, who’s expected to direct in addition to writing and exec producing, has threatened to move the production to Europe, but a source with knowledge of situation said that dispute may be settled soon.
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“Brick” Helmer’s Newest Flick Lands Blunt
Emily Blunt has been cast in the time-travel thriller “Looper,” opposite Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Rian Johnson (”The Brothers Bloom,” “Brick”) is directing from his own script. Project reunites Johnson with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson’s previous two films and Endgame Entertainment’s James D. Stern and Doug Hansen, who financed and produced “The Brothers Bloom.” “Loopers” is centered on a group of killers who send bodies of their victims back in time. Blunt will play a single mother forced to go to great lengths to protect her son.
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Good news for Vampire Hunters: “Lincoln” Ends Up at Fox

Twentieth Century Fox has won a bloody bidding war for the bigscreen adaptation of Seth Grahame-Smith’s “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter,” with Timur Bekmambetov set to direct from an adapted script by Grahame-Smith. Tim Burton is producing the 3D film with Bekmambetov. Pic’s budget is estimated at $69 million. Fox will begin pre-production immediately and is planning a 2012 release, according to insiders.
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New Indie Hockey Movie Gets Its Cast

Seann William Scott and Jay Baruchel are lacing up their skates for “Goon,” an indie hockey comedy. Alison Pill and Marc-Andre Grondin are jumping onto the ice for the movie, which begins shooting in Winnipeg mid-October with Michael Dowse behind the camera. Baruchel and Evan Goldberg, the frequent collaborator of Seth Rogen, wrote the script, inspired by the book “Goon: The True Story of an Unlikely Journey into Minor League Hockey” written by Doug Smith and Adam Frattasio. Baruchel is also a producer on the project, which is being produced by DCP Productions’ Don Carmody along with David Gross and Jesse Shapira. Movie centers on Doug Glatt, a bouncer (Scott) who has been touched by the fist of God. Upon discovering both his right hook and skates, he joins a downtrodden hockey team and inspires them into new heights.
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Another Video Game Franchise Headed to the Big Screen
Hollywood has a new high-flying hero to put on the bigscreen. Eric Eisner’s L+E Pictures has optioned the film rights to Avalanche Studios’ videogame franchise “Just Cause,” which it will develop with producer Adrian Askarieh, of Prime Universe Prods., before shopping it to the studios. Michael Ross (”Turistas”) will pen the script. Property revolves around Rico Rodriguez, aka the Scorpion, a black ops agent who carries out deadly missions for the U.S. government that come in the form of creating chaos and destabilizing rogue nations from within and turning the bad guys against each other. The character’s calling card is his grappling hook and penchant for aerial stunts with his unique parachute, putting him in unusual action scenarios like hijacking fighter jets in midair.
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